[ccurtis20]

I found out a fix that works for me, im running the game on my gaming laptop with a GTX 670M and a Realtek audio card. The audio card was the thing giving me freezes/lag spikes. The freezes and stutters happened every 10-20 seconds or so. The thing that worked for me was to simply plug in a USB headset into my pc (I made the audio still play out of pc speakers) and for some reason that fixed the freezing for me. So now when I play I just plug in the usb headset before starting up Rust and it works fine now

[NG-Tagger]

Same issue as this ?
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1334268

If thats the case - then it doesnt work for me at all, since I already use a USB headset (Logitech G930).

Cant really see how an audio device would affect the game like that though - but hey - its still Alpha..

If that works for you; then great :)

[ccurtis20]

It seems the game is giving stutters for some people due to their Realtek audio. Disabling the audio card stops the freezing but you don't get any sound. So I enabled the realtek audio and plugged in a usb headset and the game works fine now. As I mentioned above I still use my laptop speakers for my game audio so give that a shot. I also disabled the nvidia audio and one other i had so just make sure you only have 1 audio playback device enabled (the realtek one)

[SilentK]

Balgobin posted:

Go to device manager, scroll down to the tab that says "Sound, Video, And Game Controllers" then right click Realtek High Definition Audio, and finally restart your computer.

[Cirox777]

If you're still having that problem, try downgrading your sound-card . Bring it to the previous version. I have had that problem too.